Society Exposed In Fahrenheit 451 By Ray Bradbury

Imagine living in a world where expanding your mind was a crime and frowned upon by every citizen. A world where reading books could get you killed, and a world where TV and electronics took up the oh so wanted chance of sitting down and reading a book that contained stories… and the real truth. Mildred Montag, the wife of a firefighter, let this world engulf her own, affecting her attitude and choices toward others. In 1953, author Ray Bradbury wrote the dystopian and utopian novel, Fahrenheit 451. Guy Montag, a firefighter was taught to disrespect the readers, and to not fall upon this certain group of people. But one day at his job, something made him question the ways of his society, what was really in those books? In the novel, Ray

In this section of the book, bombs have just currently been dropped upon the city Montag and Mildred have known. As Montag is on the run from the city government, Mildred is sitting in her hotel room, staring at the colorful walls, unaware of what was to happen next. Montag pictures Mildred in his head “He saw her in her hotel room somewhere now in the half-second remaining with the bombs a yard, a foot, an inch from her building. He saw her leaning toward the great shimmering walls of color and motion where the family talked and talked and talked to her, where the family prattled and chatted and said her name and smiled at her and said nothing of the bomb that was an inch, now a half inch, now a quarter inch from the top of the hotel.” (Pg. 152). When Ray

In this part of the novel, Montag and Mildred are talking about what happened at his job the night before, and he insists that he is sick and in utter need of a day off. Mildred says “‘You’re not sick,’ said Mildred. Montag fell back in bed. He reached under his pillow. The hidden book was still there. ‘Mildred, how would it be if, well, maybe I quit my job awhile?’ ‘You want to give up everything? After all these years of working, because, one night, some woman and her books--’ ‘You should have seen her, Millie’ ‘She’s nothing to me; she shouldn’t have had books. It was her responsibility, she should’ve thought of that. I hate her. She’s got you going and next thing you know we’ll be out, no house, no job, nothing.’” (Pg. 48). When Bradbury uses the power word choice of “I hate her” it reveals how unsympathetic she is towards others. A woman killed herself because the books inside her house were going to go up in flames. When someone is killed, people feel down and feel sorrowful towards the person, and their family. She is implying that she disliked someone for wanting something she couldn’t have, the woman wanted the books. And people don’t go around hating each other for not being able to have a certain something, Mildred should have felt regretful for saying that, but she didn’t. Additionally, In the book Fahrenheit 451 Montag has recently arrived with Beatty in front of his house,